Hi all,

I promise: NEXT TIME I WILL GIVE IT MORE THINKING BEFORE WRITING TO THE LIST!

> # first: YES I have read the man page!

 ... and have it misinterpreted :-;

I took the 

SYNOPSIS
     su [-Kflm] [login [shell arguments]]

wrong. I read it as login AND shell AND arguments instead of
login and "shell-arguments".
If I had read the DESCRIPTION more thoroughly I really should have noticed.

> 	su - $USER -c '$COMMAND'

Yes this works - of course. Thank you and sorry for bothering the
whole list with this.

Andreas